Saved by sponge

As oceans warm up, women in Zanzibar switch from seaweed to climate-resilient sponge farming to stay afloat

Louis Gossett Jr: One of his most iconic roles gives an inkling into the reasons behind some of Africa’s recent wars

Race is the “elephant in the room” in the Arab World

Literature Nobel: Zanzibari Abdulrazak Gurnah declared winner for works on colonialism, refugee experience

2021 Literature Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah’s works feature the cosmopolitan complexity of Africa’s Swahili coast as well as its …

Zanzibar has become the first island in East Africa to have a decentralised waste management model

The East African island of Zanzibar has undertaken a pilot project for decentralised waste management in the Shaurimoyo area and intends to …

Red Colobus: Conserving these Old World primates could help save Africa’s tropical forests, says study

Colobine species are leaf-eaters, compared to the omnivore cercopithecines; Africa has 17 red colobus, from Senegal to Zanzibar  

In hope of a plastic waste-free island

Although Zanzibar is cashing in on tourism, it is also battling plastic menace in the form of litter consisting of discarded water bottles and …

Zanzibar passes new regulation developed by CSE on solid waste management

The first of its kind in East Africa, the regulation will help Tanzania's semi-autonomous archipelago to tackle its burgeoning waste problem

Decentralised renewable energy solutions may be the answer to Tanzania’s energy gap

Only 23 percent of rural population have access to electricity in the country

Africa's waste challenge

For Africa, solid waste management is becoming a major concern. The writer reports from Zanzibar and Swaziland on how two contrasting scenarios …

Five African countries pledge to curb illegal timber trade

Urge consumer countries to include the issue of illegal timber as priority agenda in their summits

Zanzibar bars import, production, use and sale of plastic bags